Bhattacharya, Jay; Lakdawalla, Darius - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy biomedical_research (2006) 1, pp. 1003-1003
We analyze the value to the labor force of improvements in survival and health over the years 1970 to 1999. We find … that survival gains and reductions in the number of work-days missed due to poor health have added about 8 percent to the … are around 2%. Overall, health improvements have added $1.5 trillion to the value of labor market human capital over this …